Happy Birthday Mike!!!

Yay! It's Mike first birthday! Thank you to everyone for all of the calls, cards and gifts! Since we're not at home, it really means a lot! So we still had some cupcakes and opened gifts. Mike was not at all interested in the cupcakes. You'll notice in almost every picture he is clinging to the phone he got. He wouldn't put it down and he even went to bed with it!

Charlotte

A few weeks ago we got to babysit for our friends Stacey and Tom! They had their Marine Corps Ball in Atlantic Beach so we went and picked little Charlotte up! She is so cute! It was fun to be watching a little baby! She's only 10 weeks.

When mom's away the boys will play!

After my surgery, I was out of commission for a little while. Joe and Mike took care of me and the house work. Plus they did a little goofing around while I was asleep. Joe thought it was hysterical that Mike put my underwear on his head.

Haley Family Fun in VA

Joe and Abbie with the kids all bundled up and ready to go!

Over the holiday we went up to Matt and Taryn's. We met the rest of the fam up there to meet Gabe and for an early Thanksgiving. We had such a great time with everyone. We went to visit a great winery. Joe and I had never been before, and this was a great one to visit. The restored mansion was beautiful and it was very kid friendly. Mike and Lily played while the rest of us tasted!

Climbing Cont.

Mike being ever so helpful in the dishwasher!

Marine Corps Ball

Joe with the ugliest center piece ever


Joe practicing for the ceremony

The Marine Corps Ball was fun this year. It was at the Hilton in Wilmington. I got to meet a lot of new people in Joe's squadron. Joe was in the ceremony, but unfortunately our table was in the very back, so I didn't get any good pictures.

We have a climber on our hands!

So I've been slacking a little on the blog. We've done a couple fun things, but I haven't gotten around to downloading the pictures yet, but I will do that soon. Anyway, I did want to tell you all a little story about our friend Mike. He's been doing a lot of new things lately, but none of them comes close to this. I heard him getting up from his nap the other day so I went in to get him. I walked in to find him standing on top of his changing table! For those of you who haven't seen his room, the changing table is up against the end of his crib. The crazy kid climbed from the crib to the top of the changing table and was standing there straight up just looking to the ground. Luckily, I got there before he decided to try to get down. So needless to say, I had to move some furniture around to keep this from happening again. Ever since he did that, he's been climbing onto and into everything! He can climb up on the couch, into dishwasher, into his little closet, just everywhere!